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Idea #13837: Spin down external disk when removing

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #11469: USB Flash drive power off.
Written by Graeme Hewson the 28 Sep 08 at 20:47. Category: Hardware support. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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When Mac OS X "ejects" ("safely removes", as Kubuntu has it, or unmounts and removes from the desktop) an external USB disk, it spins down the disk.

I propose that Ubuntu should do the same. Simple, neat, the Right Thing.
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Written by Graeme Hewson the 28 Sep 08 at 20:47.
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mjwhitfield wrote on the 29 Sep 08 at 15:15
Sure why not. +1

tycoon666 wrote on the 2 Oct 08 at 19:35
But only if all Partitions are unmounted please ;)

pengo wrote on the 2 Oct 08 at 21:42
Would be nice if there was a single option to "unmount all partitions from this drive" too. It becomes difficult to do in the GUI if you have an external drive with many partitions, and it shouldn't be.

simosx wrote on the 3 Oct 08 at 19:55
There are two directions here.

One is to spin down the disks, and the other one is to 'power off' the specific USB port.

I think that what you have in mind is to power off the USB port, so that the device is off power.

Spinning down a disk is something that a small minority of disks support when the disk is in a caddy (USB conntion).

So, I'ld rename this issue to Power Off USB port when unmounting all partitions.

Graeme Hewson wrote on the 5 Oct 08 at 06:54
Thanks. Unfortunately it's not possible to edit the title, though.


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